Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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Analysis of the Statistics of Scottish-Cured Herkings from 
THE Beginning of the Century, and the Sums raid by 
Government as Bounties, and received as Brand Fees in 
Successive Years. 
In a supplementary Table, Appendix A, No. VTI. detailed Herrings 
statistics are given for each year since the e3tablishment of the {branded and 
Board of British White Herring Fisheries in 1809, of the quantities exported since 
of herrings cured, branded, and exported; together with the sums ^^^^^^ ^.^^^^ 
paid annually as bounties by the Government between 1809 and bounties J and 
1826, and the fees received by the Government for branding barrels brand fees 
e 1 • received. 
of herrings. 
The statistics of the barrels of herrings cured, given in other Basis of 
tables, are based upon the returns of those originally packed, as 
shown in the second and third columns of the table ; but in the 
process of cure a certain amount of shrinkage occurs before the 
barrels are ready for shipment, and this is shown in the fourth 
column. When the number of barrels crown branded is compared 
with the latter number, it will be seen that the proportion of 
herring3 which received the crown brand is considerably greater 
than has been generally represented. 
The Table also shows in a striking manner the very large payments Large pay- 
made by the Government in the past in aid of the Scottish Fisheries. Governmwft m 
For sixteen years, namely, from 1809 to 1824, a premium and tonnage aid of Scottish 
bounty were paid on vessels or buss^3s fitted out for the herring ^"^^^^^'5- 
fishery under provisions of the Act 48, Geo. III. c. 110. In some 
years the amount of the premium and tonnage bounty was close 
upon £20,000, or even over it, the total for the sixteen years being 
£114,514, 7s. 3d. From 1809 to 1829 large bounties were also 
granted on barrels of cured herrings which received the official 
brand. The amount of these barrel bounties was sometimes over 
£70,000 in the course of a year, and during the period in which it 
was paid it reached a total of £660,587, 93. 6d. Thus during the 
first twenty-one years after the establishment of the Fishery Board, 
the Government subsidised the herring fisht<ry of Scotland to the 
extent of £775,101, or an average of nearly £37,000 a year; and 
there is little doubt this policy gave a great impulse to the develop- 
ment of the Scottish Fisheries. 
From 1829, when the bounties ceased, to 1858, barrels of cured Brand fees 
herrings which reached the proper standard were branded without 
charge ; but since the latter year a fee of 4d. per barrel has been 
charged on each barrel branded. The total sum received by the 
Government since 1858 in the shape of brand fees amounts to 
£206,902, 143. 
DuTiT ON Scottish-Cured Herrings imported into Eussia and 
Austro-Hungary. 
It was stated in the Board's Fourth Keport that the Kussian Russian duty 
Government had in 1885 raised the import duty on Scottish-cured curS herringi 
herrings from about 43. 8d. to 7s. per barrel ; and in the following 
